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First time I’ve heard of an Orange Pi.
by r3trohack3r 4y ago
First time I’ve heard of an Orange Pi.
- eropple 4y agoThere are a ton of these sorts of SBCs, and they're all more readily available at reasonable prices than the Raspberry Pi. Most have Cortex-A53s, which are in the same class as a Raspberry Pi 3; the RPi4 has Cortex-A72 cores, but for most things that you'll use one of these for, that's not super relevant. This lack of name recognition is a real pain for people. A lot of folks in the 3D printing community kind of hurt themselves by scouring the internet for marked-up Raspberry Pis from scalpers when a Le Potato or an Orange Pi or a NanoPi or a Rock64 would do just fine. (I use Rock64 boards when I don't need wifi, and Orange Pi 3 LTS boards when I do.) My printer hub is now a Raspberry Pi only because all of the decent touchscreens I found really depend on the Raspberry Pi pinouts to connect power and HDMI, but if you just need a computer in a case, the alternatives are very good and reasonably priced.
- megous 4y agoGood brand. I've been running several different Orange Pi SBCs for almost 7 years 24/7 now since back when Orange Pi PC still cost just USD 15 and lower specced Raspberry Pi 2 cost almost 3x that. These days with EUR 22 no-VAT EU import limit gone, and post COVID price hikes, it's not such a great deal anymore. The price of Orange Pi PC is 2x it was 7 years ago, and the technology is now 7 years out of date.
- chazeon 4y agoI have been eyeing Orange Pi for a while. They made great boards but the limited choice of cases for them, especially for their latest board, has made me hesitate. The limited space in the city limited my access to 3D printer at home. FriendlyELEC does a much better job by selling board with cases.